A189006 Array A(m,n) read by antidiagonals: number of domino tilings of the m X n grid with upper left corner removed iff m*n is odd, (m>=0, n>=0).

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 4, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 8, 11, 11, 8, 1, 1, 1, 1, 13, 15, 36, 15, 13, 1, 1, 1, 1, 21, 41, 95, 95, 41, 21, 1, 1, 1, 1, 34, 56, 281, 192, 281, 56, 34, 1, 1, 1, 1, 55, 153, 781, 1183, 1183, 781, 153, 55, 1, 1, 1, 1, 89, 209, 2245, 2415, 6728, 2415, 2245, 209, 89, 1, 1

Offset: 0

Author

Alois P. Heinz, Apr 15 2011

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl

Examples

			A(3,3) = 4, because there are 4 domino tilings of the 3 X 3 grid with upper left corner removed:
  . .___. . .___. . .___. . .___.
  ._|___| ._|___| ._| | | ._|___|
  | |___| | | | | | |_|_| |___| |
  |_|___| |_|_|_| |_|___| |___|_|
Array begins:
  1, 1,  1,  1,   1,    1,    1, ...
  1, 1,  1,  1,   1,    1,    1, ...
  1, 1,  2,  3,   5,    8,   13, ...
  1, 1,  3,  4,  11,   15,   41, ...
  1, 1,  5, 11,  36,   95,  281, ...
  1, 1,  8, 15,  95,  192, 1183, ...
  1, 1, 13, 41, 281, 1183, 6728, ...
		

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Antidiagonals n = 0..75, flattened
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Perfect Matching
• Wikipedia, FKT algorithm
• Wikipedia, Matching (graph theory)
• Index entries for sequences related to dominoes

Crossrefs

Rows m=0+1, 2-12 give: A000012, A000045(n+1), A002530(n+1), A005178(n+1), A189003, A028468, A189004, A028470, A189005, A028472, A210724, A028474.

Main diagonal gives: A189002.

Cf. A099390, A187596, A187616, A187617, A187618, A004003.

Programs

Maple

with(LinearAlgebra):
A:= proc(m, n) option remember; local i, j, s, t, M;
      if m=0 or n=0 then 1
    elif m1 or j>1 or s=0 then
               if j
				

Mathematica

A[1, 1] = 1; A[m_, n_] := A[m, n] = Module[{i, j, s, t, M}, Which[m == 0 || n == 0, 1, m < n, A[n, m], True, s = Mod[n*m, 2];M[i_, j_] /; j < i := -M[j, i]; M[, ] = 0; For[i = 1, i <= n, i++, For[j = 1, j <= m, j++, t = (i-1)*m+j-s; If[i > 1 || j > 1 || s == 0, If[j < m, M[t, t+1] = 1]; If[i < n, M[t, t+m] = 1-2*Mod[j, 2]]]]]; Sqrt[Det[Array[M, {n*m-s, n*m-s}]]]]]; Table[Table[A[m, d-m], {m, 0, d}], {d, 0, 15}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 26 2013, translated from Maple *)